Joining Carl's Jr. and White Castle, Burger King is adding a tastes-like-beef veggie burger to their menu.This week, Burger King | Continue reading
For his series of documentary short films, States of America, Brad Barber is profiling one person from each of the 50 US states. | Continue reading
It's only Monday, but I'm confident this will be my favorite read of the week. Since 2012, paleontologist Robert DePalma has been | Continue reading
John Boswell has made a 10-minute time lapse video showing the history of the universe, from its formation 13.8 billion years ag | Continue reading
I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch Free Solo (my hands are getting sweaty and I'm feeling faint just thinking about it), b | Continue reading
I've been keeping track of every media thing I "consume", so here are quick reviews of some things I've read, seen, hear | Continue reading
Before Sir Winston Churchill became a politician, he was a writer. In the late 1890s, Churchill published a pair of books about Br | Continue reading
If you slip on your headphones and watch this on the biggest available screen, you may feel the unbelievable sense of freedom of | Continue reading
According to new data from the General Social Survey, the number of Americans who answered "no religion" in response to | Continue reading
Gizmodo's Daniel Kolitz recently asked a panel of anatomists and evolutionary biologists about what the most useless part of the h | Continue reading
Asian speakers switching their Rs and Ls is an old Hollywood trope that you may have seen in movies like A Christmas Story, Lethal | Continue reading
These visually striking posters showcase the most endangered animals from each of the 50 US states.Here's the story of | Continue reading
Jessica Wapner writes in the New Yorker about the research into how border walls affect the people living near them.In the ninet | Continue reading
This is a map of ARPANET circa May 1973 via David Newbury, who found it among his father's papers. The first part of ARPANET was | Continue reading
Emily Wilson, who produced this banging translation of The Odyssey and is currently at work on The Iliad, recently tweeted a list | Continue reading
One of my favorite Wikipedia articles is the timeline of the far future, which details the predictions science makes about the p | Continue reading
Why do we dance? It's a silly question because the answer seems obvious -- "because we want to, duh" -- but this video | Continue reading
NVIDIA has been doing lots of interesting things with deep learning algorithms lately (like AI-Generated Human Faces That Look A | Continue reading
In his forthcoming book, The Designer's Dictionary of Type, Sean Adams profiles 48 of the best-known typefaces in the world, fro | Continue reading
Nidhal Selmi combined the fractal Sierpinski triangle with the impossible Penrose triangle to create the M.C. Escher-like the Se | Continue reading
This two-minute scene rendered in real-time by a video game engine is almost indistinguishable from real life. Petapixel explain | Continue reading
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the USPS is releasing a pair of stamps with lunar imager | Continue reading
Ikea furniture is so ubiquitous that all sorts of hacks and modifications have been designed by fans to coax new uses out of famil | Continue reading
2018's most visually inventive movie was Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. In this video, Danny Dimian, Visual Effects Supervis | Continue reading
50 years ago last week, Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar was published for the first time. In a piece for The Atlantic, | Continue reading
On her Instagram account, Marin Mushrooms, nature photographer Alison Pollack captures the otherworldly beauty of fungi and | Continue reading
This Aeon essay by Giorgio van Straten, "Lost in Migration," is excerpted from a book titled In Search of Lost Books, | Continue reading
There are so many sides to Orson Welles that one of them is bound to get overlooked. Welles was a groundbreaking screen and voice | Continue reading
The Library of Congress has a remarkable digitized work in its collection titled "An anciente mappe of Fairyland : newly di | Continue reading
This infographic from Language Base Camp shows where the sounds that English speakers use are produced in the mouth and throat. | Continue reading
In the latest episode of Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak examines how Ian McKellen does a lot of heavy lifting with his eyes, especiall | Continue reading
Open the canned peaches because Al Swearengen, Seth Bullock, and the rest of your Deadwood favorites are back on May 31 in Deadwoo | Continue reading
From America's Test Kitchen and Dan Souza, the editor-in-chief of Cook's Illustrated, a YouTube series called What's Eating Dan? I | Continue reading
From London motion design studio Mr. Kaplin, an animated alphabet where the animation for each letter is a experiment that was c | Continue reading
If you look at the orbits of the planets adjacent to the Earth's orbit (Venus & Mars), you'll see that Venus's orbit is closes | Continue reading
From The Public Domain Review, Ogawa Kazumasa's Hand-Coloured Photographs of Flowers.The stunning floral images featured her | Continue reading
Paper artist Alia Bright combines papercraft and typography to make these colorful, um, sculptures? Texts? They're super-cool, | Continue reading
By some accounts, 99% of the wasabi consumed in the world is not actually wasabi -- it's horseradish + green food coloring. Real | Continue reading
Quentin Tarantino brings back two of his biggest stars, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, in his new film Once Upon a Time in Hol | Continue reading
Ian Fisher's paintings of clouds are surprisingly lifelike. If you scroll through the paintings on his site, you can see his | Continue reading
Brian Chirls took the approval ratings for Richard Nixon's presidency and using sounds from The Legend of Zelda's classic Dungeon | Continue reading
When Apollo 11 landed two men on the Moon and returned them safely to Earth, thousands of people at NASA were joined in the effort | Continue reading
Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan, a pair of comedians whose hilarious cooking show I've previously featured, are back with Get Kra | Continue reading
This week, Last Week Tonight covered the topic of public shaming and the episode included an interview by host John Oliver of Moni | Continue reading
Religion and philosophy have their own answers as to where our consciousness comes from, but in this video, Kurzgesagt explores ho | Continue reading
For The Atlantic, Sarah Zhang tells the story of dozens of people who found out through DNA testing that a fertility doctor named | Continue reading
This guided meditation by Alan Watts really helped me this morning. (There's a version without music as well.)From The Practic | Continue reading
Now this is a lede:When I first read Virginia Woolf's dictum that "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she i | Continue reading